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Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems

Edited by Julia Boffey, Edited by Christiania Whitehead, Contributions by Thomas G. Duncan, Contributions by Ayoush Lazikani, Contributions by Dr Daniel McCann, Contributions by Michael P Kuczynski, Contributions by Annie Sutherland, Contributions by Hetta Elizabeth Howes, Contributions by Natalie Jones, Contributions by Anne Marie D'Arcy

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A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse. The body of short Middle English poems conventionally known as lyrics is characterized by wonderful variety. Taking many different forms, and covering an enormous number of subjects, these poems have proved at once attractive andchallenging for modern readers and scholars. This collection of essays explores a range of Middle English lyrics from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, both religious and secular in flavour. It directs attention to the intrinsic qualities of these short poems and at the same time explores their capacity to illuminate important aspects of medieval cultural practice and production: forms of piety, contemporary conditions and events, the historyof feelings and emotions, and the relationships of image, song, performance and speech to the written word. The issues covered in the essays include editing lyrics; lyric manuscripts; affect; visuality; mouvance and transformation; and the relationships between words, music and speech. A particularly distinctive feature of the collection is that most of the essays take as a point of departure a specific lyric whose particularities are explored within wider-ranging critical argument.

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Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published date | 19 Mar 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 328
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 502g
ISBN | 978-1-8438-4592-8
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BISAC | literary criticism / medieval


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